The MK2018GAS offers the industries highest areal density per platter, at 35.1gigabits per square inch. This new drive offers enough capacity for portable video recording and editing, with lower power consumption compared to the traditional 3.5-inch HDDs. This functionality provides ideal storage for a range of commercial and consumer notebooks, as well as non-PC applications such as PDAs, printers, copiers, GPS systems and MP3 players. The MK2018GAS is ATA-5 compliant, supporting high transfer rates of up to 100 megabytes per second.